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Re: fdisk problem
>Aernoudt Bottemanne wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I try to install OpenBSD on my laptop I have a problem. The disk to
be
>> more exact. It install, but after reboot it won't start. This is due to
the
>> partitioning. No matter what I try it just does not want to work :-(
>>
>> By the way this is the information when at the fdisk promt:
>>
>> fdisk: 1> print
>> Disk: wd0 geometry: 1023/255/63 [16434495 sectors]
>> Offset: 0 signature: 0xAA55,0x0
>>
>> starting ending
>> #: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 0: 00 0 0 1 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
>> 1: 00 0 0 1 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
>> 2: 00 0 0 1 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
>> *3: 00 0 1 1 - 1022 254 63 [ 63 - 16434432] OpenBSD
>>
>> Obviously I want to have OpenBSD at #0 in stead of #3 because of the
>> hibernation partition, which wants to be at the #3 partition.
>>
>> According to FreeBSD it should read 2055 cylinders in stead of 1023 for
>> geometry. During the second fase of fdisk, I do not use the 1024/65536/16
>> schema but 4096 or 8192 / 32768 / 64 as suggested in some manual I found
>on
>> the OpenBSD site (and during previous fdsik exercises with other large ide
>> disks (but then in a PC in stead of a laptop)
>>
>> PLEASE HELP, I want to kick out NT here on my laptop (the laptop of my
>work)
>> and want to start using my privat laptop on OpenBSD....
>>
>> Just for the completeness:
>>
>> IBM ThinkPad 390X (type: 2626-L0G) 18GB IBM laptop harddisk, 192Mb
memory,
>> ESS solo sound, neomagic video, 14,1" screen, 24x cdrom, AT&T softmodem
>(gets
>> recognized during boot, if it works I have not been able to test yet...)
>>
>> THANKS FOR ANY HELP
>>
>
>I had a similar situation I think. After an install boot would stop
>at -
>"Using Drive: 0 Partition: 3" I could boot into the new install off
That is exactly the message.
>the boot floppy with -
>>boot hd0a:/bsd
>
>What I did was boot with a windows 95 floppy and -
>fdisk /mbr
I have done that already, with no luck :-(
The problem has something to do with this: '16434432' is the size mentioned
by OpenBSD. Linux and FreebSD report 35G sectors (a little more the twice the
amount OpenBSD reports. Also: 2250 (FreeBSD/Linux) versus 1023 (OpenBSD)
cylinders.
Aernoudt
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